Mathematics Institute News
Warwick student wins best presentation at UG conference
Andi Hani wins best presentation at TMT'24 conference.
Miles Reid awarded Sylvester Medal
Miles Reid has been awarded the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal "for his exceptionally creative research and fundamental insights into higher-dimensional algebraic geometry, in particular the minimal model program for 3-folds, and for untiring work for the community of algebraic geometers".
Read more about this prestigious award from the Royal SocietyLink opens in a new window and about Miles’s live and work in the press releaseLink opens in a new window.
Upon receiving the news, Miles writes
“I do not intend to retire anytime soon. My work is my purpose and main pleasure in life.
I enjoy work with project students. Like me, these often have a unique world view, individual thought processes and the ability to concentrate on a narrow problem to the exclusion of the world around. This doesn’t always benefit small talk at parties!
I am delighted that more women are becoming involved in STEM subject research, but we still have a long way to go in diversity issues. While gender is still very much a work in progress, the class divide in countries like the UK and the Eurocentric imbalance resulting from our colonial past represent even bigger challenges."
David Bate and Marie-Therese Wolfram win LMS Whitehead Prizes
Congratulations to two Warwick mathematicians who have each won LMS Whitehead Prizes!
David BateLink opens in a new window for his deep and fundamental contributions to the development of Geometric Measure Theory in the metric setting, including the characterisations of rectifiability in terms of projections and in terms of tangent planes.
Marie-Therese WolframLink opens in a new window for her groundbreaking contributions to applied partial differential equations, mathematical modelling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.
See all the 2023 LMS prize winners hereLink opens in a new window
Congratulations to Thesis Prize Winners: Solly Coles, Thomas Holt, Alice Hodson
We are delighted that three mathematicians have been awarded Thesis PrizesLink opens in a new window for outstanding doctoral theses in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine:
Dr Solly ColesLink opens in a new window for the thesis: 'On the distribution of periodic orbits and linking numbers for hyperbolic flowsLink opens in a new window'.
Dr Thomas Holt for the thesis: 'Solving the Kodaira-Spencer problem using harmonic analysis on torus bundles over S^1Link opens in a new window'.
Dr Alice HodsonLink opens in a new window for the thesis: 'Virtual element methods for fourth-order problems: implementation and analysis'.
We congratulate them for their outstanding work.
Weldon Prize awarded to SPI-M-O and Zeeman modellers
This year’s Weldon Prize has been awarded to the SPI-M-O group (including members of the Warwick Zeeman InstituteLink opens in a new window) in recognition for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The awards committee said "Under great pressure to deliver results quickly, and under immense public scrutiny, SPI-M-O both built on existing science and developed new epidemiological and statistical techniques to understand the spread of the virus and how it might be controlled. The importance of good and timely disease modelling for policymakers has never been as clear."
The Warwick team (including Keeling, Dyson, Tildesley, Thompson, Hill, Davis, Moore, Guzman-Rincon, Leng and others) has made multiple contributions to understanding and predicting the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2022, generating results for both SPI-M-O/SAGE and JCVI. This award reflects this joint effort. Congratulations to all involved!
Read more about the award hereLink opens in a new window.
Jan Grebik is the winner of 2022 Mary Ellen Rudin Award
Congratulation to Dr. Jan GrebikLink opens in a new window for winning the 2022 Mary Ellen Rudin AwardLink opens in a new window for his exceptional works in broad areas of research including descriptive set theory, combinatorics, probability theory, distributed computing, and ergodic theory.
The award is sponsored on behalf of the journal Topology and its ApplicationsLink opens in a new window, together with the annual Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference, the annual Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications and the Conference of the European Set Theory Society.
The award aims to celebrate Mary Ellen Rudin’s achievements and her legacy, together with encouraging the development of young talent in mathematics.